Imamat 26:31

26:31 I will lay your cities waste ¹  and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.

Amos 3:1

Every Effect has its Cause

3:1 Listen, you Israelites, to this message which the Lord is proclaiming against ²  you! This message is for the entire clan I brought up ³  from the land of Egypt:

[26:31]  ¹ tn Heb “And I will give your cities a waste”; NLT “make your cities desolate.”

[3:1]  ² tn Or “about.”

[3:1]  ³ tn One might expect a third person verb form (“he brought up”), since the Lord apparently refers to himself in the third person in the preceding sentence. This first person form, however, serves to connect this message to the earlier indictment (2:10) and anticipates the words of the following verse.